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Ft Bragg, CA: : Cypress House., (2006.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which "provides immediate answers to questions posed by writers who've found themselves struggling with the specifics of trying to get published while contending with the common obstacles to writing well and completing a manuscript without succumbing to writer's block, fatigue, self-doubt, and depression." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Annotated resource list. 81 pp.

New York:: Random House,, (2001). Hardcover first edition -. Appropriately, this is an exlibrary copy but with relatively few markings in a fine unmarked dust jacket. . First printing. "Since the 1950s, our country's greatest libraries have, as a matter of common practice, dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers and so-called brittle books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. The marketing of the brittle-paper crisis and the real motives behind it are the subject of this passionately argued book, in which Nicholson Barker pleads the case for saving our recorded heritage in its original form while telling the story of how and why our greatest research libraries betrayed the public trust by auctioning off or pulping irreplaceable collections. The players include the Library of Congress, the CIA, NASA, microfilm lobbyists, newspaper dealers, and a colorful array of librarians and digital futurists, as well as Baker himself who eventually discovers that the only way to… Read More

Boston:: Beacon Press,, (1997.). Near fine.. Trade paperback. Essays on books and writers - from Clover Adams (wife of Henry Adams) to Willa Cather, Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Andre Dubus, and more. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 165 pp.

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 2012.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, but with a remainder dot.). First printing. "The inspiring true story of a son and his mother, who start a "book club" that brings them together as her life comes to a close. Over the next two years, Will and Mary Anne carry on conversations that are both wide-ranging and deeply personal, prompted by an eclectic array of books and a shared passion for reading. Their list jumps from classic to popular, from poetry to mysteries, from fantastic to spiritual. The issues they discuss include questions of faith and courage as well as everyday topics such as expressing gratitude and learning to listen. Throughout, they are constantly reminded of the power of books to comfort us, astonish us, teach us, and tell us what we need to do with our lives and in the world. Reading isn't the opposite of doing; it's the opposite of dying." Includes an appendix listing the books and authors… Read More

New York:: Ecco Press,, (2003.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Discusses - among other things - the importance of reading for a writer, her childhood inspirations, and how she learned the craft of writing. 158 pp. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in.

New York:: The American Institute Of Graphic Arts, , 1950.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in black cloth with a yellow cloth spine. . First printing. The 1950 exhibition was the 28th Annual Exhibition, opening April 4, 1950 in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington. A selection of 50 of the best books of 1949 (out of ten thousand), chosen on the basis of typography, design, content, quality of manufacture and significance. Each book is illustrated with pictures of the binding, title page and one interior page. Indexes. Unpaginated, but a slim book.

Philadelphia:: The Free Library of Philadelphia,, 1940.. First edition -. Very good in stiff cream wrappers (some toning to the pages and covers, minor wear to yapped edges.). First printing. Illustrated exhibition catalogue. Includes 64 incunabula from Gutenberg and his Bible through Wynkyn de Worde, in Westminster in 1500, with information on the printers as well as the books themselves. 94 pp

Sibling Press, , (2002). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in illustrated boards.. First printing. One woman's tribute to the art of Edward Gorey, published shortly after his death. Includes a large 6 part fold-out drawing. Bibliography. Small oblong format, unpaginated.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1995.). Hardcover -. Very good in a very good dustjacket (remainder line). 3rd printing. Fascinating stories about bibliomania and book collecting through the years - including sections on many responsible for building some of the great collections in the US - from Ruth Baldwin to Ransom to Schomberg. A true feast for book lovers. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 631 pp.

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1995.). Hardcover -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line). 3rd printing. Fascinating stories about bibliomania and book collecting through the years - including sections on many responsible for building some of the great collections in the US - from Ruth Baldwin to Ransom to Schomberg. A true feast for book lovers. Photographs, notes, bibliography, index. 631 pp.

Berkeley, CA:: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California,, 1965.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and a facsimile of GPH's initials on the front cover (some pages still unopened.) . First printing. Published to as a celebration of Hammond's nineteen-year tenure as Director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Contributors include Dale L. Morgan, Agapito Rey, Charles L Camp, Robert H. Becker, Warren R. Howell, Robert E. Burke, J. S. Holliday and others..Includes a bibliography of George P. Hammond's writings and as well as reprinting his first published work. Frontispiece portrait, 10 additional sepia-toned pages of reproductions, plates and portraits. Keepsake Number 13, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. xiii, 119 pp.

New York:: Clarkson Potter,, (1979.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.). First US printing. Subtitled "Articles, Essays, Letters, Anecdotes, Illustrations, Photographs, and Memorabilia about the Prophetic Genius of the Twentieth Century." While Wells was noted as a historian, educator, social philosopher, supporter of women's rights and much more, this is a book dedicated to documenting the life and times of Wells, the writer - the inventor - of science fiction and fantasy. Includes essays on Wells by Jorge Luis Borges and Basil Copper, critical reviews, articles on films based on Wells's fiction, three early pieces of fiction and prophecy by Wells, a parody, "The Island of Professor Menu," by James F. Sullivan, George Cruikshank drawings to Marvel comics covers, and much more. Foreword by Jack Williamson. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs, drawings and reproductions of old newspapers and magazines on every… Read More

Philadelphia:: Lippincott,, (1955.). Hardcover -. Good in green boards with a black cloth spine, no dust jacket.. Hardcover. A new illustrated edition of book originally published in 1919, designed by Warren Chappell and illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. 253 pp.

Boston & New York:: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence,, (1994). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.). First US printing. An account of Donleavy's struggle to create and publish the book that became a twentieth-century masterpiece: The Ginger Man. It took him 4 years to write it, and then it was rejected by 35 publishers until Maurice Girodias of the Olympia Press accepted it - only to infuriate Donleavy when he discovered that it was published as part of the often anonymous and pornographic Traveller's Companion series. Over twenty years of lawsuits followed, with Donleavy eventually prevailing, and Girodias driven into bankruptcy with the press purchased by Donleavy's wife at auction. This is "literary history combined with Donleavy's autobiography - from his childhood in the Bronx, education at Catholic schools, service in the U.S. Navy, and travels, to his current life as proprietor of a landed estate in the midlands of Ireland."… Read More

Reykjavik:, 1982.. First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First printing. A collection of scholarly essays by Jonas Kristjansson, Bjorn Bjornsson, Sigurour Lindal, Olafur Halldorsson, and Finnbogi Gudmundsson, published in conjunction with the first exhibition of Icelandic manuscripts outside that country. Illustrated with photographs of manuscript illuminations and pages of early Icelandic printed books. 84 pp

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (the last 2 blank pages of the book contain a hand-written 2 page essay on 'My Ideas on Novel' dated and signed by a writer who apparently is still not published - reference is made to his novel being at a literary agent; dj is price-clipped.). First printing. The Northcliff Lectures originally presented in London in 1980 - among the authors whom McCarthy looks at from the perspective of 'ideas' in their books are Henry James, Hugo, Balzac, George Eliot and Dickens, and 20th century writers, including Bellow, Malamud and Roth, all writers of the Jewish novel.

New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,, 1980.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, prev owner's name). First printing. The Northcliff Lectures originally presented in London in 1980 - among the authors whom McCarthy looks at from the perspective of 'ideas' in their books are Henry James, Hugo, Balzac, George Eliot and Dickens, and 20th century writers, including Bellow, Malamud and Roth, all writers of the Jewish novel.

Charlottesville, VA:: Alderman Library, University of Virginia,, 1988.. First edition -. Fine (a new copy) in stapled teal wrappers. . First printing. Keepsake produced in conjunction with an exhibition featuring the Sadleir-Black Gothic Novel Collection. Includes an essay on history and imagination in the Gothic novel, and another on the collection itself. Illustrated, notes. Designed by Warren Chappell. One of 1500 copies. 25 pp

Boston:: Little Brown,, 1926.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket. . First trade edition. Includes chapters on printing, typography, illustrations and much more - illustrated with a full color frontispiece with a captioned tissue guard and many plates throughout the book, Orcutt, who designed the type face 'humanistic' was the manager of University Press in Cambridge and Plimpton Press in Norwood and he has been credited with advancing printing as an art form. Top edge gilt. List of illustrations. Index. 316 pp plus colophon.

Limpsfield, UK:: Paper Tiger,, (1983). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A guided tour of ten famous houses from novels by many authors - including Kafka's The Castle and Wodehouse's Blanding Castle, Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, Gone with the Wind, Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, and more. Illustrated with full color paintings, including some double page spreads, drawings and floor plans throughout. Large format. 141 pp.